Employment History

Outreach and Admissions Director

P.W. ReedOutreach/Admissions DirectorP.W. Reed, is a driven leader with over 20 years of experience working in private and non private sectors as a sales trainer, motivational speaker, life coach, consultant, and clinician.Reed as he prefers to be called, has worked with Year Up Since September 2007 as a consultant, interim Director of Admissions, life coach and Student Service Contractor.He is the former founder/ Chairman of a Christian based non profit organization serving over 5,000 members across four locations, including New Orleans, Hyde Park, Trinidad and West Africa.His ministry has sponsored one of the largest food banks in Boston, Ma., substance abuse centers, adolescent program and children of the night programs.
In the private sector he is the founder of Five Star Consulting, Inc., a Non Profit organization that mentors children and adolescents.Reed provides treatment and support to athletes and families in healthy living, providing crisis intervention, mental health treatment, preventative health and personal training.
Reed has provided over 20 years of sales training and motivational lectures to high schools, college students and sales organizations nationally.
He has also worked for more than 10 years in the Junior College/Vocational training programs as Director of Admissions and Educational Director.His educational background is a B.A. in Marketing with a minor in Psychology from Southern University in New Orleans, and Masters Degrees in Psychology and Substance Abuse and Drug Addiction from Cambridge College.